{"id":218616,"date":"2025-07-24T04:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/demonstration-of-first-antimatter-quantum-bit-paves-way-for-improved-comparisons-of-matter-and-antimatter"},"modified":"2025-07-24T04:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:23:18","slug":"demonstration-of-first-antimatter-quantum-bit-paves-way-for-improved-comparisons-of-matter-and-antimatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/demonstration-of-first-antimatter-quantum-bit-paves-way-for-improved-comparisons-of-matter-and-antimatter","title":{"rendered":"Demonstration of first antimatter quantum bit paves way for improved comparisons of matter and antimatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/demonstration-of-first-antimatter-quantum-bit-paves-way-for-improved-comparisons-of-matter-and-antimatter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a breakthrough for antimatter research, the BASE collaboration at CERN has kept an antiproton\u2014the antimatter counterpart of a proton\u2014oscillating smoothly between two different quantum states for almost a minute while trapped. The achievement, reported in a paper published today in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, marks the first demonstration of an antimatter quantum bit, or qubit, and paves the way for substantially improved comparisons between the behavior of matter and antimatter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a breakthrough for antimatter research, the BASE collaboration at CERN has kept an antiproton\u2014the antimatter counterpart of a proton\u2014oscillating smoothly between two different quantum states for almost a minute while trapped. The achievement, reported in a paper published today in the journal Nature, marks the first demonstration of an antimatter quantum bit, or qubit, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}